yannick nche
DevSecOps Engineer | Tech Consultant
Yannick Nche is a strategic IT and Cloud Security engineer with over 8 years of experience driving enterprise security transformation, cloud governance, and operational excellence across large-scale environments. He brings deep expertise in Microsoft Azure and multi-cloud platforms, with a proven ability to align security strategy with business priorities to reduce risk, ensure compliance, and enable secure digital innovation.
Currently serving as an Azure Security Engineer with the State of Louisiana, Yannick operates within a large-scale government cloud environment supporting thousands of users and mission critical systems. He has led and contributed to enterprise-wide security initiatives, including the implementation of Privileged Identity Management (PIM), Conditional Access policies, and Microsoft Defender for Cloud resulting in a measurable 75%+ improvement in secure score and significant reduction in identity and access risk.
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Yannick has been instrumental in managing and remediating security backlogs across multiple Azure subscriptions and services, prioritizing high-risk vulnerabilities and collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive resolution at scale. He has helped enforce governance across environments by implementing Azure Policy and Blueprints, ensuring compliance across hundreds of cloud resources and standardizing security controls organization wide.
Strong in DevSecOps, Yannick has designed and deployed Infrastructure-as-Code solutions using Bicep and Terraform, enabling repeatable, secure deployments and reducing configuration drift across environments. During his time at Microsoft, he contributed in building and securing enterprise pipelines CI/CD) and cloud workloads, integrating automated security scanning, strengthening identity protection, and improving incident detection and response through Microsoft Sentinel
As the Founder and Lead Consultant of Yandtech Consulting, Yannick provides strategic advisory and technical leadership to clients, delivering cloud architecture, cybersecurity solutions, and workforce development programs. He has trained and mentored aspiring IT professionals and supported organizations in building secure, scalable infrastructures aligned with modern best practices.